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Thick fog was a factor in the May crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, an armed forces investigation found. His death shook Iran at a strained moment for the country.

The prospect of a strong performance by the far-right Alternative for Germany party in two state elections is only one of the problems for Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Demonstrators lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of torpedoing efforts to secure a cease-fire in exchange for the hostages’ release. The country’s largest labor union said it would go on strike on Monday.

One of the hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was an American citizen.

For centuries, the sport’s wooden sticks have been made from Ireland’s ash trees. But with a disease destroying forests, the ancient game is turning to different materials.

Some vegetables cost more than they have in five years. Top Chinese officials have made a point of showing that they’re doing something about it.

Anger and grief in Israel.

The satellite internet service controlled by Elon Musk is refusing to comply with a court order to block his social network, X, regulators said.

The Israeli military said Sunday that Hamas had killed the hostages before they were discovered by Israeli troops on Saturday.

Demonstrations spread across cities around the country after the Israeli military said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages killed in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas agreed to pause the war to permit the vaccination of 640,000 children in Gaza, a daunting effort for health workers.

The Alternative for Germany party was on course to win in Thuringia, according to projections, in what was seen as a worrying sign of the health of German democracy.

About a quarter of the residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city, have moved away — and more are expected to soon follow.

One of the victims, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was a dual Israeli American citizen.

The helicopter was flying tourists in Russia’s Kamchatka region. No survivors were expected among the 22 people on board, state news agencies said.

Ukraine gambled that its move into Russia would draw Moscow’s forces away from the town of Pokrovsk. It didn’t happen. And now resigned residents are evacuating daily.

The officers were shot and killed in what the Israeli police said was a terrorist attack. The incident followed a rise in Palestinian and Israeli violence, as Israel’s military raids Palestinian cities.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan for transforming the judiciary goes much further than other countries that allow some judges to be elected.

The United States condemned the episode near Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea and reaffirmed its defense treaty with Manila.

It’s so hot in Cairo that people like to go out all night. It might look like a party, but in reality, one shopkeeper said, “everybody is dead on the inside.”